🇮🇷 IRAN’S ECONOMY GOT HIT HARD, AND IT STARTED WITH AN OBSCURE BANK
A bank in Iran, Ayandeh Bank, just straight-up collapsed late last year, and it’s a huge deal.
Essentially this one bank going under basically triggered a financial meltdown that’s now rippling through the whole country, which led to the initial protests in Dec. 2025.
The wild part? It was tied to the regime’s military and security forces (because of course it was), and it was packed with sketchy loans, corruption, and all kinds of insider nonsense.
Now regular people can’t get their money, inflation’s out of control, and small businesses are drowning, meanwhile the regime’s just acting like nothing’s wrong.
Source: Wall Street Journal
